Financial Support

The Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge is seeking innovators driven by a passion for solving challenges in the agri-food sector by utilizing or conserving agrobiodiversity.

Deadline: 30th of September 2021

Diaspora startup investment program seeks to create opportunities that unlock investment for high-growth startups in Kenya, Somalia & Ethiopia. Are you running an impact-driven, high-growth startup in Kenya Somalia & Ethiopia, sector agnostic business?

Deadline: Rolling

Reckitt is proud to support the Lead2030 challenge for SDG 2. This challenge seeks to support solutions which work to end malnutrition. Challenge submissions must focus on: achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age...

Deadline: 28th of September 2021

The “Women Entrepreneurship for Africa” (WE4A) program is an action jointly supported by the European Union (EU), the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the TEF.

Deadline: Rolling

We have launched the WFP Call for Applications in search of game-changing ideas to build stronger, more sustainable food systems, addressing hunger at the root and galvanizing international cooperation on food security.

Deadline: 28th of November 2021

We welcome applications from potential investees for projects across the agricultural value chain (with the exception of tobacco and potable ethanol) and for any country in sub-Saharan Africa, apart from the following countries with upper-middle income levels: Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Mauritius, Namibia and South Africa.

Deadline: 30th of December 2021

The submission of a concept note is the first stage of a two-stage application process. Funding will not be provided based on a concept note. At the second stage, a maximum of two applicants or lead partners of a consortium whose applications rank highest will be invited to submit a full proposal. These two applicants who successfully passed the concept note threshold will be provided with substantive criteria and outlines of the full proposal. The proposal that meets the criteria and outlines best may qualify to be selected. The total funding available under this call for concept notes is up to €23 million over four years. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will fund only one proposal or none, up to the maximum funding available. Please be aware that for budgetary reasons there may be a possibility that the program will ultimately not be awarded.

Deadline: 30th of September 2021

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, via the Embassy of the Netherlands in Khartoum, intends to fund a four-year food and nutrition security program in Sudan targeting the development of smallholder farmers in rain-fed agriculture for the Darfur region and South Kordofa

Deadline: 30th of September 2021

The Nestle foundation focuses on providing agriculture grants for research in the following areas: child and maternal nutrition, agricultural development (especially in areas like food policies, food production, and food technology), macro and micro-nutrient deficiency, nutrient imbalances, interactions between infection and nutrition, promotion of nutritional education and health. Also, the foundation supports research proposals that are beneficial to developing-countries

Deadline: 31st of December 2021

The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) is seeking applications for financing projects along the commodity value chains following sustainability roadmap. CFC provides a range of financial and technical instruments to support projects proposed by SMEs/enterprises, cooperatives, and institutions along the entire commodity value chain in its member countries.

Deadline: 15th of October 2021